40k/day site dropped in ranking - Google dance?

[topaul]

For about 3 months my site dropped big time in Google rankings, which means a drop of 10k unique Google hits a day!

I made some front page changes and I was building links before the drop occurred, so I thought it was just a Google dance. I kept continue building links like I did before till now.

I have experiences with a Google dance drop of 1 month and 2 months, but not with 3 months+.

Before the drop my site was found for some big real high competitive main keywords and a lot of long tail keywords. Now my site only gets 2k - 3k SE hits a day, which is yahoo/bing, but also still some hits from Google. Before I had total 12k - 13k Google hits a day.

Anyone have similar experiences of a Google dance of 3 months, or maybe I'm punished because of my link building/changing the front page?

 

[DamageX]

Impossible to say without knowing more about the site. Could be still dancing, could be pandalized, could be whatever.

 

[soull]

Make some good links and look what happends

 

[topaul]

Ok, but maybe someone had a similar experience...

 

[WizIMS]

I had a similar experience mate.

Just focus on building as much as high authority backlinks..

Even if you had to pay a lot of money, just get them! After that you'll "remove the Google doubt" and they'll appreciate your website more, and hopefully rank you even higher..

 

[HatIsBlacked]

did the change involve moving ads above the fold or add more ads?

 

[jdmeg6]

40k traffic/day , can you say what type of site it is?

 

[kilauea999]

Maybe just be a little more patient and it'll come out of the penalty box eventually?

 

[blackhatchampion]

do Qualities Back links. Follow only high PR sites. You will get ranking 100%

 

[kideze]

do Qualities Back links. Follow only high PR sites. You will get ranking 100%

there is pure truth to this. also throw some new wiki links in there too.

 

[thelinkjuice]

Man that sucks, hopefully you get your traffic back.

 

[NeoPat]

As mentioned high contextual pr links are the way to go for you mate

 

[MagicMike]

My initial questions would be:

1. How big is your site? Could there be duplicate content issues?
2. Do you have unique meta descriptions/keywords for each page or is every page the same?
3. Do you have a heavily spammy link profile from the past (scrapebox, xurumer, etc.)?
4. Is it a "directory" type site or an e-commerce site?

These are a few of the issues Google seems to be catching up with and punishing.

 

[psteve710]

Thats sucks, IM kinda sucks you can spend months working on the website and everything can go down in just matter of a second..

Same thing happened to me today and I posted this thread

http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/black-hat-seo/402009-google-dance.html